President Joe Biden is disappointing liberal activists and his wife as congressional Democrats are poised to scrap a program providing two years of free community college to eligible students.

And as Biden, White House aides, and Capitol Hill Democrats frantically chip away at their original $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate spending package, as well as try to agree on how to pay for the final product, they risk alienating the young voters they hope the package will energize before next year’s midterm elections.